• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    That depends entirely upon the context. There are many situations where not tipping is rude. There are also situations where tipping is rude. “Rude” is a quality related to social expectations. You can be unintentionally rude due to ignorance of the norms, and that doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person. But if you knowingly refuse to tip when tipping is expected for a provided service, then you’re a shitbag.

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        If you knowingly buy chinese goods produced with slave labor you’re a shitbag and they’re a shitbag. There can be more than one shitbag in the chain.

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          slave labor

          china

          lmao you could have said coco or diamonds or meat packing or the World Cup or gestured vaguely at the country with the highest prison population, but you had to go with the fictional example. Or do you genuinely think China has slaves driving combine harvesters (unlike Angola or a dozen other prisons where slaves pick cotton by hand)?

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              I mean I don’t like tankies either but is this user wrong? it’s a little weird to use these flippant (and frankly, derogatory) stereotypes about China when there are so many examples of it around the world

              it’s 2025 and we’re in middle of a trade war with china, just recovering from “kung flu” narratives and the far right just ran on a platform of fearmongering about china to initiate a fascist takeover of the USA.

              maybe we should be mindful of how we talk about China.

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                I mean I don’t like tankies either but is this user wrong?

                Yes. Do you have reputable sources that show no chinese goods are made using Uyghur forced labor?

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        Yes, the people refusing to pay them properly are the shitbags. The employer is a shitbag, and the customer who refuses to tip is a shitbag.

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        If someone is not even attempting to getting the law that allows their core income to come from tips changed that makes one complicit and therefore obligated to tip.

        If you are fine with server’s primary income coming from tips then you are obligated to tip.